Family Museum, 2900 Learning Campus Drive Bettendorf, IA 52722, will host a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, June 12 at 5:30pm to celebrate the opening of their Rainforest Adventure Exhibit.

Explore Rainforest Adventure on Exhibit at the Family Museum from June 13-September 7, 2015

Rainforest Adventure is a multisensory expedition that introduces visitors to tropical rainforests around the world, highlights the challenges facing these unique ecological wonders and suggests ways that people can make a difference.

Rainforest Adventure topics include: tropical rainforests around the world, conservation, scientists, animals, plants and global connections.

GEAR UP!

• Meet scientists and explore the ways they study rainforests

• Become a research assistant through assignments, costumes and props

• Take a closer look at plant and material slides through an oversized microscope

• Climb a kapok tree that’s 9 feet tall

• Study plant and animal life in the different layers of the rainforest

• Weave on a loom

• Climb through a tree log to discover animals that make their homes there.

• Explore a gorilla nest

• Discover products that come from tropical rainforests

• Visit children around the world and learn how their families help protect the rainforests

• Learn about what you can do to help protect rainforests around the world.

Rainforest Adventure was created by Stepping Stones Museum for Children with support from The Jaffe Family Foundation and MeadWestvaco Corporation. 

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